| Title: | The New Haymarket Spring Meeting |
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| Description: | Scene from The New Haymarket Spring Meeting, at The Haymarket Theatre.--The Lord Mayor's Fool Introducing Westminster to London. |
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| Theatre: | Haymarket |
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| Source: | The Illustrated London News, May 5, 1855, p. 428 |
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| Review: | The Illustrated London News, May 5, 1855, p. 428 |
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"THE NEW HAYMARKET SPRING-MEETING."
The accompanying illustration represents the meeting of London and
Westminster and the interposition of the Fool giving the moral
of the scene. The portraits of Mrs. Caroline White, Miss Harriett Gordon,
and Mr. Buckstone, lend an interest to the
picture. The matter of complaint against the City is that within its walls
it fails to encourage the stage and that people must go as far as Norton
Folgate for a theatre. This civic prejudice is old enough to be obsolete,
and the rejection of the drama, so that it has to find refuge in extramural
establishments, is anything but creditable to the intelligence of the authorities.
The City of London ought, as a duty, to have a model
theatre for the high drama, and might do much good in this way and find beneficial
occupation for funds now wasted. The attention bestowed by the Haymarket manager
on the National Standard and its neighbour theatre speaks much in favour of his liberality.
There the drama is at present flourishing in its severer forms, and it is to the
metropolitan Orient that we must look for promising indications of a new era.
Westminster, on the
other hand, has an advantage in its various exhibitions, some of which are of a highly
original character and others so unique that they secure a long run without fear of competition.
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